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Recently tore through the upcoming reissues of two early Shirley Jackson novels, THE ROAD THROUGH THE WALL and HANGSAMAN. Both excellent.
.@mir_b Gopnik actually namechecks Hall, Buchanan, and Corcoran, which makes the Willeford omission all the more glaring. (& V. Hendricks!)
Finally caught up with Adam Gopnik's treatise on Florida crime fiction. No mention of Charles Willeford. Come on. newyorker.com/arts/critics/a…
OH MY GOD total vintage paperback pulp cover bonanza. RT @mikecane: BookScans bookscans.com
Dorothy Salisbury Davis on writing violence: "If I have to have blood, it'll be blood, not colored iodine." donswaim.com/21%20Dorothy%2…
1984 sales are up but can't quite grok if NSA/Snowden revelations means YA dystopia is fully dead or destined for another refresh.
Last year it was too soon and too raw, but this Father's Day, thinking of my dad with more of a sense of bittersweet peace.
A first edition of FINNEGANS WAKE can be yours for $800-1200 this coming Thursday. (h/t @MAOrthofer) catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalo…
Terrible pics. RT @missdaisyfrost: I hope Nigella is ok - this story,if it is true, is unsettling and worrying. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/n…
How nice of them to admit it! RT @CNET: NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants cnet.co/1ag0FCy
New Pieces, Forthcoming Events - Crimewave column, choir concerts, International Crime Month panel, & more. tmblr.co/ZHsvaynQOdy9
Very much so. RT @valmcdermid: Fine and final interview with Iain Banks by Stuart Kelly. Moving and inspiring. tinyurl.com/mnod3te
Whaaaat RT @jonswaine: Oh dear RT @WillHeaven Holy moly. Sun front page: "Jacko's ghost: My death was an accident" pic.twitter.com/nOAL1Sw6U4
We're all going to read it anyway, so what the hell: NYT Sunday Styles profile of Luke Janklow. nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fas… (via @doreeshafrir)
Finally, Steven Mikulan's @LA_mag article from April on the Finch/Tregoff case - a pet favorite - is online in full. lamag.com/features/2013/…
Book review editor #protip: your matchups have to be more creative and fresh than potential blurber list created by the book's publisher.
Rolling my eyes at a book review clearly assigned to a writer asked to blurb said book, who must have found a way to dodge the blurb.
Hey, it's my new column! RT @npbooks: Crimewave: Always Watching, Miss Montreal, Murder as a Fine Art natpo.st/10iKvq6
When fear prevails with dudes. RT @michelledean: The reason is that movie studio execs lack… brightness and talent. npr.org/blogs/monkeyse…
Our writeup of yesterday's court proceedings featuring Apple's Eddy Cue at @PublishersLunch. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/06/in-cou… [reg req'd]
Filmmaker files suit asserting "Happy Birthday" is in the public domain. About time. nyti.ms/176UIsP (via @MatthewBattles)
My vote's with EQMM. RT @xlorentzen: Goodnight. I think the Paris Review is the best establishment magazine in America, for the record.
Two weeks of trial, four days a week, roughly 6 hours of testimony per day = just under 1900 manuscript pages.
So Cherie Blair's phone-hacking lawsuit against News Corp was personal? online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
Fell down the Twitter analytics rabbit hole. Turns out my concept of silent-favoriting was right on the money.
Brief Boston Globe obit for Joan Parker, philanthropist and widow of Robert B. Parker. boston.com/names/2013/06/…
First theatrical trailer for Shane Salerno's JD Salinger documentary. movies.yahoo.com/video/salinger…
Joan Parker passed away yesterday. There was nobody tougher, funnier, or more stylish. She was everything you've heard and 100 times more.
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Imminent article idea: what the NSA Knew About Rupert and Wendi's Marriage
"But how do we know you're not a JT Leroy-type scam artist?" Ah, Musto. gawker.com/well-what-purp… (via @MissStaceyMay)
2013: the year the interns revolt! Two former interns have sued Conde Nast: one for W, one for the New Yorker. nytimes.com/2013/06/14/bus…
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Why file for divorce so soon after News Corp split was approved? Oh, wait.
Unanimously. Wow. Also, good. RT @katzish: Supreme Court rules unanimously that human genes cannot be patented nyti.ms/11Ke4iL
.@CRSRipley Thank you! Though it's totally a joint @PublishersLunch effort, through and through. Need two people on 200+ court docs a day!
Ew gross, of course an attempt to smear Avril Haines would be written by two men. thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/…
Necessary nitpick because the misspelling is everywhere: it's EDDY Cue, not Eddie.
It looks like Twhirl is dead. Spaz doesn't work either. Twitter appears to have changed its API. The intuitive apps for journos: gone.
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! MT @palafo: census turning point: More white Americans are dying than being born. Points to a more diverse future. nyti.ms/1bxY8S1
Excellent and counter-intuitive to boot RT @mikecane: Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cri…
RT @romenesko: Wall Street Journal is offering buyouts to all employees; they have until June 20 to make a decision. bit.ly/15Y7tkQ
Nothing more transgressive than rehearsing a Requiem in a synagogue.
+10000 RT @rgay: Today is Rona Jaffe's birthday. You should read The Best of Everything because it is awesome.
Update: window washers stuck in scaffolding at Hearst Building have been rescued by FDNY gothamist.com/2013/06/12/two…
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UK retailers pissed at Amazon & Sainsbury's deep discounting of Iain Banks' posthumous novel.( £3.99 hc!) thebookseller.com/news/anger-dra…
So precarious. RT @Gothamist: More photos of the rescue going on at Hearst Tower in midtown Manhattan gothamist.com/2013/06/12/two…
Huge news. RT @kathrynschulz A judge just ruled that unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws: nyti.ms/11Wk0Rc HT @BenLillie
Title of book I will never write based on this month's activities: TO THE COURTHOUSE.
Our recap of Day 6 of the Apple trial, featuring John Sargent & Keith Moerer, at @PublishersLunch: lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2013/06/in-cou… [reg req'd]
The great crime novelist Derek Raymond considered at length by @JoyceCarolOates in the NYRB. nybooks.com/articles/archi…
Working on story about pregnancy in the digital age. Anonymous survey for moms-to-be here: bit.ly/14UdoFl Please RT!
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